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The Power Systems Unit (USE) will coordinate a study, together with the University of Cagliari (Italy), on the long-term impact (2030) of the high growth of the renewable energy sector in the European networks.
06th April 2009
USE will provide technical consultancy to GALP Energia regarding the integration of wind parks in Venezuelan electrical grids.
28th January 2009
The Power Systems Unit (USE) has signed a contract for the new stage of the Wind Production Forecast project with the EPREV consortium, together with INEGI, the Centre for Wind Energy and Atmospheric Flows from FEUP (CEsA) and the Centre of Geophysics of the Faculty of Science of the University of Lisbon (CGUL). For this, USE had the support of the Manufacturing Systems Engineering Unit (UESP).
27th January 2009
The Power Systems Unit (USE) has recently concluded a study for ENERCON regarding the analysis of aerogenerators in a stationary and dynamic environment. These aerogenerators will afterwards be installed at the Fonte da Mesa 2 and Salgueiros Guilhado wind parks.
13th December 2008
The Power Systems Unit (USE) will develop a work, together with the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) in the United States, for the Department of Energy (DoE) of the American Government. The work is related to the forecast of the production of wind energy.
28th October 2008
The Power Systems Unit (USE) has participated through its coordinator, João Peças Lopes, in the General Assembly for the Smart Grids European Technological Platform, which took place in Brussels. João Peças Lopes, member of the platform’s Mirror Group, spoke on the theme of “Active Distribution Networks”.
28th October 2008
João Peças Lopes, coordinator of INESC Porto’s Power Systems Unit (USE), has participated as speaker in a workshop promoted by the European Union on Energy Efficiency and Smart Grids, which took place in Lisbon, on 26 June. The theme of the presentation was "Smart Metering".
22nd July 2008
The Power Systems Unit was invited to participate in the “Green Islands” project – flagship project of the MIT-Portugal programme for the area of Energy Sustainable Systems.
02nd July 2008
In the context of its advanced training offer on emerging topics within the power sector, the Power Systems Unit (USE) has organised an international course called “Developing Microgeneration and Microgrids” that took place from 19 to 21 May.
20th April 2008
The Power Systems Unit (USE) of INESC Porto has recently finished the first stage of the study that was carried out in order to evaluate the capability that the Hungarian electrical system has of producing wind energy.
04th April 2008
The kick-off meetings for two new projects of the TEMPUS programme took place in January and INESC Porto is currently participating in this programme through the Power Systems Unit (USE).
03rd March 2008
Following a contract with EDP Distribuição included in the CCR project, the Power Systems Unit (USE) presented to ERSE (Regulatory Authority for Energy Services) the necessary loss profiles for the good functioning of the electricity market.
21st September 2007